{"id":225526,"date":"2026-06-03T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/illinois-hires-its-first-chief-ai-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:00:10","slug":"illinois-hires-its-first-chief-ai-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/illinois-hires-its-first-chief-ai-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois hires its first chief AI officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/illinois-hires-its-first-chief-ai-officer\/\">Illinois hires its first chief AI officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/illinois-hires-its-first-chief-ai-officer\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/illinois-hires-its-first-chief-ai-officer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 16:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kader Sakkaria was appointed as the first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer for the Illinois Department of Innovation &amp; Technology on June 1.<\/li>\n<li>Sakkaria is a seasoned technologist with a diverse background in global data technology, leadership roles at Ruffalo Noel Levitz, BMO Harris Bank, and as an innovation and technology commissioner for the City of Aurora.<\/li>\n<li>As Illinois\u2019 CAIO, Sakkaria will lead the state\u2019s enterprise AI strategy and facilitate its ethical and responsible deployment across government.<\/li>\n<li>The state actively recruited for this role starting from December, emphasizing the need for a \u201cstatistical-minded person\u201d who understands AI governance and has a passion for government services.<\/li>\n<li>The appointment of Sakkaria aligns Illinois with other states like Vermont, Texas, New York, Montana, Oklahoma, and Alabama that have also appointed chief AI officers to guide AI adoption.<\/li>\n<li>Illinois recently released its statewide AI policy in April and launched a chatbot tool to 55,000 users in October, with the CAIO tasked with ensuring privacy, security, and good governance in these initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois hires its first chief AI officer https:\/\/statescoop.com\/illinois-hires-its-first-chief-ai-officer\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-03 16:54:00 Source Domain: statescoop.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/272443853_356967959761829_7536583837256371907_n-e1780519665831.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-225526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225529,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225526\/revisions\/225529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}